Letter to the Editor: General Respect and Compassion in Belle Plaine ...Beauty without Vanity Strength without Insolence Courage without Ferocity And all the Virtues of Man Without his Vices. That is how Lord Byron started his epitaph to his beloved dog, Boatswain, and I believe it fits all ...
Letter to the Editor, Lob Kaloupek (I knew him as Charlie). My Dad, Tony W. Sheda, in addition to having a grocery store in Chelsea also bought cull chickens from the area farmers. In those days (1950’s) almost every farm had crops, chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, etc. They made their own ...
Dear Editor: Ya know, our money system works kind of like four guys in a room that want to play cards, except that they have no cards of their own so they borrow the cards from a card shark. Now the card shark wants the four card players beholden to him, so he charges interest. How does that ...
Letter to the Editor: WE DON’T UNDERSTAND......... If our goverment is so smart why is it so hard to reach a budget agreement??? Stop giving money to other countrys and start helping people in our own country...The rich should pay more, we the common peoople are the ones getting the blunt of ...
To the Editor: As you know the Toledo area endured quite a storm recently. And it left the trees with a lot of damage and the city with quite a mess. I know a lot of residents were left with a lot of expense but the City and the power companies are doing their part to clean things up. But ...
To the Editor: The participants at the Tama County Career Development Center are very capable workers. We are hard working individuals who care about doing quality work. We enjoy performing a variety of jobs. At the present time, we are looking for work that we can do for you. To us, all ...
Letter to the Editor: What is the matter with our water?????? I am so upset with what has been happening for the last 11/2 years in the west side of Tama. I was told that the city is flushing water mains and changing out fire hydrants as to the reason why my water is not usable at times. ...
Letter to the Editor: I think that this is insightful and I would like to share it with you. With each recession we lose more and more of the middle class. As reported by 60 minutes recently, 25% of our school children are at the poverty line or below; and, economists will agree, government ...
Dear Editor: Chuck Grassley was on C-SPAN and said he is a fiscal conservative. The same Chuck Grassley was for spending hundreds of millions for a rain forest in Iowa. This tells me we have to many old and senile politicians in Washington DC. Mr. D. A. Benda Toledo
To the Editor, The long lasting Iowa political season is now at our front door. I’d like to pitch in my own two cents worth. One penny for the Democrats and one penny for the Republicans. It doesn’t seem to matter who is in office they almost always increase the size of this years budget ...